Emergency Medicine Cases

Emergency Medicine Cases


Latest Episodes

Best Case Ever 50 – Delirium Tremens
October 11, 2016

In anticipation of EM Cases Episode 87 on Alcohol Withdrawal Dr. Sara Gray describes her Best Case Ever of severe alcohol withdrawal and Delirium Tremens from Janus General. - Also on this podcast Dr. Anand Swaminathan reacts to Episode 86 Emergency M...

Episode 86 – Emergency Management of Hyperkalemia
September 27, 2016

This is 'A Nuanced Approach to Emergency Management of Hyperkalemia' on EM Cases. Of all the electrolyte emergencies, hyperkalemia is the one that has the greatest potential to lead to cardiac arrest. And so,

Best Case Ever 49 – Post-Arrest Hyperkalemia
September 13, 2016

Melanie Baimel's Best Case Ever on Post-Arrest Hyperkalemia on EM Cases. Post arrest patients can sometimes be challenging. We need to think of a variety of underlying causes of the arrest, antiarrhythmics, possible cath lab activation,

Episode 85 – Medical Clearance of the Psychiatric Patient
August 29, 2016

Psychiatric chief complaints comprise about 6 or 7% of all ED visits, with the numbers of psychiatric patients we see increasing every year. The ED serves as both the lifeline and the gateway to psychiatric care for millions of patients suffering from ...

Episode 84 – Congenital Heart Disease Emergencies
August 10, 2016

Congenital Heart Disease Emergencies on EM cases with Gary Joubert and Ashley Strobel. - You might be surprised to learn that the prevalence of critical cardiac disease in infants is almost as high as the prevalence of infant sepsis.

Journal Jam 7 – Amiodarone vs Lidocaine vs Placebo in Cardiac Arrest: The ALPS Trial
July 26, 2016

Journal Jam 7 - Amiodarone vs Lidocaine vs Placebo in Cardiac Arrest: The ALPS Trial. - In our most popular EM Cases episode to date - ACLS Guidelines Cardiac Arrest Controversies, we boldly stated, that there has never been an antiarrhythmic medicati...

Best Case Ever 47 – Cyanotic Infant
July 26, 2016

In anticipation of EM Cases' upcoming episode, Congenital Heart Disease Emergencies we have Dr. Gary Joubert a double certified Pediatric EM and Pediatric Cardiology expert telling his Best Case Ever of a four month old infant who presents with intermi...

Episode 83 – 5 Critical Care Controversies from SMACC Dublin
July 05, 2016

EM Cases Episode 83 - 5 Critical Care Controversies from SMACC Dublin: I had the great opportunity to gather some of the brightest minds in Emergency Medicine and Critical Care from around the world (Mark Forrest from U.K.,

Best Case Ever 46 – Chris Nickson on Hickam’s Dictum
June 21, 2016

EM Cases Best Case Ever - Chris Nickson on Hickam's Dictum. - Usually we use the heuristic of Occam's razor to help us arrive at one diagnosis that makes sense of all the data points that a particular patient presents to us.

Episode 82 – Emergency Radiology Controversies
June 07, 2016

EM Cases Episode 82 Emergency Radiology Controversies, pearls and pitfalls: Which patients with chest pain suspected of ACS require a CXR? What CXR findings do ED docs tend to miss? How should we workup solitary pulmonary nodules found on CXR or CT?